Joeboy

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by Joeboy 3y ago
My #1 interview tip would be, have a decent mic / internet setup so I have a shot at understanding what you're saying.
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by Joeboy 3y ago
For example, does it not seem intuitive to you that it should be possible to take a brush tool and paint on the canvas? In GIMP, you can usually do that, but sometimes you can't, for reasons that are initially baffling. Once you figu
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by Joeboy 3y ago
Do you know people who do professional level image editing in GIMP and have never used another image editor?
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by Joeboy 3y ago
Not a fan of "this" comments but, very much this. The way layer boundaries work in Gimp is tremendously confusing and annoying. Perhaps the existing code makes it difficult, and I get the impression the devs have been stuck dealin
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by Joeboy 3y ago
Which leads me to wonder, what would be the reason for doing that rather than just using the system WebView?
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by Joeboy 3y ago
I started on the "Let's make a button" page and got very confused. IIUC the missing part is "you point a camera at stuff and a program on your computer does things in response, including sending output back to the stuff
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by Joeboy 3y ago
Apologies if this is too much of a spoiler, but you might be a bit surprised by how the film's immediate sequel plays out. Edit: And considering when it was made and who made it, a happy ending was by no means guaranteed. Compare and c
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by Joeboy 3y ago
I think the public "budget" number is best considered as part of the film's publicity. It might reflect reality, it might not. Some films exaggerate their production budgets to make them seem like good value to buyers, some u
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by Joeboy 3y ago
This is the one people always cite when talking about big budget film breakdowns. I presume because it's the only one that's out there. Edit: Apparently there's a leaked budget for The Interview out there. https://
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by Joeboy 3y ago
> Combining those two in a movie would kill the most patient directors It killed Richard Stanley's career for 20 years. After which he got the make the fairly well-received Color Out of Space, just in time for his career to get re-k
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by Joeboy 3y ago
> I'm arguing against shrugging and saying "it's because of remote work" Have I at any point said that?
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by Joeboy 3y ago
Ok, but unlike the person I was replying to you seem to be arguing against giving people the benefit of the doubt.
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by Joeboy 3y ago
> Why are they working on something that goes weeks without checking in code? I think it was a couple of days' worth of work, which they told me was nearly finished for a couple of weeks. All I was saying was there was no way for me
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by Joeboy 3y ago
> Situations are situational Indeed. I suspect a lot of people here work in situations where there's slack in the system and nothing particularly bad happens if the work doesn't get done.
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by Joeboy 3y ago
The project came to an end (hence me having to wrap up their work), so I didn't do much. I'm on a new project now, but I have the same question. If someone keeps insisting their work is coming along great and they'll be check
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by Joeboy 3y ago
How specifically would I know that? Last time I gave somebody the benefit of the doubt I ended up doing their work myself over Christmas. I'm interested to know what I should've done to avoid that.
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by Joeboy 3y ago
I'd have thought most people doing serious audio work (recording live performances etc) would have a core to spare for the audio process. I suppose there's probably some reason this doesn't work well, because I've never
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by Joeboy 3y ago
So many clever solutions to the problem of HTML being too easy.
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by Joeboy 3y ago
Indeed, but they mention the possibility of redoing it in assembly.
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by Joeboy 3y ago
> each 8x8-pixel block can show one or two different colors, but never three or more That's not entirely true. If you modify the colour attributes between the drawing of each row, you can get eight separate 2-colour palettes in an
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by Joeboy 3y ago
It's a bit more than 8kB, but if you like unexpectedly dark animated movies about sheep I recommend the Blender Foundation's open movie Cosmos Laundromat[0]. Their movies always seem to be weirdly dark for tech demos for some reas
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by Joeboy 3y ago
You probably also want to live in some sort of building, at least during Winter. Which is pretty much impossible to do frugally now, at least round here. I know people who live in vehicles etc, but it's a pretty challenging life, espec
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by Joeboy 3y ago
Perhaps I should've said "Are you sure it's not just that you had enough money to do that?" I'm not sure if it was intentional, but your other point is the same point I was making (I obviously agree).
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by Joeboy 3y ago
Are you sure you're not just rich? I think lots of us would happily "be unemployed for a while" without concern for the alleged "social consequences". But a lot of people can't afford to do that.
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by Joeboy 3y ago
In order for this 8Hz to be making a difference, surely it'd have to be related to some biological human frequency. I think all our clock-type things are too approximate. Heart rates are very variable, brainwave ranges are approximate,
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by Joeboy 3y ago
Surely the field of cryptography relies on conscientious and competent actors developing solutions that are robust in the face of malicious actors. I am skeptical that there are software development practices that will allow me to hire a te
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by Joeboy 3y ago
Pydantic 2.x is much faster than Pydantic 1.x. Polars is a much faster replacement for Pandas. Tauri seems to be getting some traction as a much more lightweight replacement for Electron. Python's got significantly faster in recent rel
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by Joeboy 3y ago
Are there software dev processes that operate well in the face of incompetent or malicious people? I can think of ways to mitigate the damage, but at the end of the day surely you need some competent and conscientious people on your project
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by Joeboy 3y ago
These are called calques.
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by Joeboy 3y ago
Pharmacological solution to a social problem.

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